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Fishing for Parts

A snapped rod and forced wastefulness

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Addison Del Mastro
Jun 01, 2021
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Like a lot of people, in the summer of 2020 my wife and I bought fishing licenses and got a pair of new fishing rods. (We had a couple that my parents lent us, which we had used to fish out a little boat in a Vermont lake, back in the 1990s.) Those were rough and could only cast about 30 feet, so we bought a couple of different decent entry-level spinni…

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